According to the Aiken Standard, a bomb-sniffing dog alerted security personnel to explosives potentially present onboard a vehicle.

Savannah River Site (SRS) issued a press release stating: “a potential security event is in progress that has triggered emergency response activities at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site,” and the release is “being sent to you as part of our emergency response organization information process.”

SRS also stated there is no indication of a “consequence beyond the Savannah River Site boundaries.”

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The site will provide further information when it becomes available.

WYFF reports that: “The incident was reported in an area of the facility where uranium is purified and blended down and [excess] plutonium is dissolved for transfer to waste processing, according to officials.”

The facility is the only of its type still operating in the United States.